Colossians 3:18
Wives be subject to your own husbands, as is fit in the Lord.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
In Context
19Husbands, love your wives, and use no asperity against them.
Cross References
Acts 5:29Then Peter and the apostles answering said, We must obey God rather than men.
1 Corinthians 14:34Let your women be silent in the churches: for it is not permitted to them to speak: but to be in subjection, as also the law saith.
Ephesians 5:22Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Titus 2:4that they instruct the young women to be discreet, to love their husbands, to love their children,
Matthew Henry on Colossians 3:13-18
Love Recommended. ( a. d. 62.) 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; 13 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. 14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. 15 And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful. 16 Let the word of… Read the whole commentary →